Have you ever wondered who started telecommuting or work-at-home lifestyle?
Telecommuting", they call it.
And "telecommuter ", the term for one who works (for an employer or independently) from home, equipped with the basic gadgets (he may also be referred to as a "teleworker", "remote worker" or "distance worker"). Such gadgets are a telephone, a computer, and possibly a fax machine; with which one does his tasks and maintains communication with the office or person he works for.
A large percentage of American workers these days do their jobs (full-time, part-time, on contract or commission) at home. The jobs range from clerical, bookkeeping, accounting, billing, sales and marketing, to data entry, computer tasks, programming, to research, writing, public relations, to managerial — the list is endless. However, when the trend began sometime in 1963, it was mostly confined to computer programming.
According to June Langhoff, narrating the history of telecommuting, a programmer involved in an internet project (at that time known as Arpanet) based in Sta. Monica, California, quit his job to take care of his sickly pregnant wife. Realizing the programmer's importance in the project, a coworker persuaded management to set up an extra telephone line to the programmer's home and. to have him continue with the program through the use of a teletype machine. It was a decade later that the system was given the formal name "telecommuting" by a rocket scientist (Jack Nilles) connected with the NASA satellite communications project. Since 1990 Europe, Australia, and parts of Asia have adopted the work-from-home system.
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